BBC Breakfast reporter branded 'schoolyard bully' after boasting 'I rip slugs apart' | S6Z23C3 | 2024-03-14 21:08:01
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</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> BBC Breakfast viewers have been left shocked and disturbed by a reporter's confession about 'ripping aside' slugs, and he's now been referred to as 'a schoolyard bully' by animal rights charity Peta.
The pests are a nuisance to many gardeners, however the broadcaster's local weather and setting correspondent Jonah Fisher has quite a robust reaction to them.
'They've lengthy been thought-about an enemy of gardeners all over the place, however now there's a new marketing campaign which hopes to provide slugs and snails a bit of a makeover,' Naga Munchetty began on Thursday's BBC Breakfast.
Co-host Charlie Stayt continued: 'The Royal Horticultural Society needs us to challenge our unfavourable perceptions of the much-maligned creatures by contemplating their contributions to the ecosystem.'
And for Fisher particularly, the slugs actually are enemies, as he stated it's a 'deadly battle between the gardener and the slug and the snail'.
In the course of the morning report stay from RHS Wisley, he then confessed: 'I used to be out in my allotment in Cardiff final weekend, I didn't know I was coming to talk to you, and every time I noticed a slug, I picked it up, I ripped it apart, I killed it, as a result of I didn't need it consuming my crops.'
His comments have now been condemned by animal charity Peta, with Elisa Allen, PETA Vice President of UK Programmes & Operations, telling Metro.co.uk: 'Like all animals, slugs endure terribly when they are poisoned, drowned, or killed in some other crude approach – and solely a schoolyard bully would brag about ripping them aside.
'Nature's recyclers, these much-maligned molluscs eat decaying plant matter and play an important position in our ecosystems.
'Dr Alan Gelperin, who has studied the training talents of slugs, encourages the general public to "pause and think about the creature's marvellous complexity and place within the scheme of things" when resolving all perceived conflicts with them – recommendation which this reporter ought to urgently heed.'
Viewers have been additionally shocked at Fisher admitting he 'ripped apart' the slimy creatures, with X consumer @trackso367 writing: 'Who the hell is the presenter speaking about slugs- "I find them, decide them up and rip them apart, i kill them". What sort of maniacs are you hiring!'
@sam_hasell added: 'Your reporter is a psychotic nutter who rips slugs aside?'
'Ripped a slug aside? Did I hear that appropriately?' @djrustynail wrote.
</div></figure> </div></figure> </div></figure> </div> Others have been on the aspect of the skilled, with Dr Juliet writing on X: 'I really like watching my Bugman @AndrewSalisbur2 on the tellybox, and I really like the very fact he's asking us all to be good to #slugs and #snails.'
Fisher added that throughout the nation different gardeners can be agreeing that we 'need to cease' the slugs and snails from consuming their crops.
Nevertheless, the phase went on to point out how slugs truly are very important for a 'healthy stability in a backyard' and to 'accept a bit of injury'.
Metro.co.uk has approached the BBC for remark.
BBC Breakfast airs from 6am on BBC One.
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